Pete Sessions
Republican · TX-17 · U.S. House
TX-17 — U.S. House
Safe R 99%Pete Sessions is on the ballot. Casey Shepard vs. Pete Sessions. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Peter Anderson Sessions is an American politician who serves in the United States House of Representatives for Texas's 17th congressional district as a member of the Republican Party. He chaired the House Rules Committee from 2013 to 2019 and is a former chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 27.7 years · not continuous, returned 2021
- First took office
- 1997 (14 terms)
- Seniority
- 32 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 71
- Lufkin, TX · 936-219-6450
- Nacogdoches, TX · 936-585-7959
- Waco, TX · 254-633-4500
- Huntsville, TX · 936-755-7770
- Round Rock, TX · 202-340-9033
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $8.8M – $23.4M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $8.8M – $23.4M
- Since 2019
- +$12.4M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 153 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Pete Sessions's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Pete Sessions (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Sessionssits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 141 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Sessions's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Former GOP Rep. David Rivera gets 10 years for secret Venezuela lobbyingMIAMI (AP) — A former Miami congressman and longtime friend of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison in connection with a secret $50 million lobbying campaign on Venezuela’s behalf during the first Trump administration…
Yahoo Entertainment · October 2, 2026
Ex-Rules chair to oppose ruleHow much trouble is the GOP leadership floor plan in? Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas, a former Rules Committee chair who is not in the habit of defying party leaders, said he plans to vote against the procedural measure advanced by the panel last night. He cited…
Biztoc.com · September 1, 2026
Disillusioned Republican says he can't bring himself to vote for some of his own partyLUBBOCK — Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said Thursday that Republicans are going to lose some statewide elections this year because of data centers, which has become a heated issue for Texas across the state. In an interview with The Texas Tribune…
Raw Story · August 6, 2026
Fox Host Goes Ballistic Over Bill To Help American FarmersRep. Pete Sessions appeared on Fox's The Big Weekend Show to discuss a bill aimed at helping American farmers by expanding and expediting the agricultural guestworker program. This is not a new subject, and even Pedolph Shitler said that they would have to co…
Crooksandliars.com · August 3, 2026
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